Coat-hanger cover



Feb 10, 1959 c. c. zlNTEL 2,873,054

COAT-HANGER COVER Filed Dec. 27, 195?l United States Patent O CoM-HANGER COVER Clarence C. Zintel, Indianapolis, Ind.

Application December 27, 1955, Serial No. 555,480

6 Claims. (Cl. 223-198) This invention relates to a cover for a conventional wire type coat hanger.

It is an object of this invention to provide an easily attachable inexpensive cover for a coat hanger which is adapted to afford a rounded support for garments hung on said hanger cover.

It is another object of this invention to provide a` coat hanger cover with portions which serve, in the alternative, either to provide rounded, crease-inhibiting ends of the cover or as stops preventing the straps of strapsupported garments from slipping oir the hanger.

In accordance with the invention, there is provided a triangularly shaped blank of cardboard or like stiff sheet material foldable over the downwardly divergent arms of a coat hanger along two sets of diverging score lines. hanger a covering which has a rounded surface for supporting a garment without forming creases therein along the lines of support. There is further provided on said cover a slot and a tongue insertable therein for locking said blank over the hanger. Shoulder-supporting flaps near the'lateral extremities of the blank give a ilaring type of support to the shoulders of a coat beyond the arm-holes and serve further to prevent creasing along the upper seams of said shoulder. The shoulder aps `are adapted to be folded upwardly into a vertical position to form hook-like stops for holding the straps of garments that must be supported from a hanger by said straps.

In order to carry out the most beneficial purposes of the invention two sizes of covers are provided: a smaller size cover adapted for womens garments having a shorter length along the axes of the divergent score lines, and relatively shorter shoulder-supporting tlaps extending therefrom; and a cover adapted for mens garments which has a longer length along the axes of the divergent score lines, and relatively longer shoulder r supporting flaps extending therefrom. The cover for womens garments terminates at a distance less than the lateral width of the hanger, while the mens cover terminates laterally at a point beyond the lateral ends of said hanger.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention. In such drawings:

Fig. l is a front elevation of a coat hanger with a cover in accordance with the invention secured thereon;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the blank for forming the cover shown in Fig. l;

Fig. 3 shows a conventional coat hanger placed on the cover blank for folding and securing the latter over said hanger;

Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of a coat hanger and the cover secured thereon showing in full lines the shoulder-supporting tlap as normally employed, and in dotted lines said flap folded upwardly to form a strap-supporting K stop;

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of a coat hanger in full lines the shoulder supporting tlaps extended, and

The cover provides for the upper section of a 2,873,054 Patented Feb. 10, 1959 in dotted lines said flaps folded upwardly to form strapsupporting stops; and

Fig. 6 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line 6-6 of Fig. 4. Y

As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the cover 10 is a triangularly shaped blank of cardboard or like stiff foldable material consisting of front wall aps 12 and 14, and a rear wall panel 16. The two front wall aps are distinguished from the rear wall panel by the main score lines 18. A pair of diverging auxiliary score lines 22'on opposite sides of each main score line 18 distributes the bending and provides a rounded surface of suspension for garments hung on said cover. Slot 23 extends downwardly from the top of blank 10 terminating at the aperture 25 from which the score lines 18 extend.

To apply the cover 10 as shown in Figs. l and 4, the hanger is placed on the blank 10 with the hanger supporting arm 32 extending upwardly through the aperture 25, and the flaps 12 and 14 are folded over the divergent hanger arms 24 and 26 along the score lines 18. The two flaps circumscribing the hanger supporting arm 32 are locked together by inserting a hooked tongue 28 on the ap 14 into a slot 30 on the ap 12 thereby securing the cover on the hanger. The cover 10 rests on the hanger along the scored shoulder-center lines 18, and the downwardly extending score lines 22 which diverge in a direction away from the aperture 25 and the score lines 18 distribute the bending or folding of the stiff cardboard material to form'an arc of suspension for a coat or similar garment as shown in Fig. v6. The rounding effect produced by score lines 22 further serves to extend the front and rear panels of the cover in opposite directions to give a rounded support to the collar and lapels of a garment hung on said cover.

Shoulder-supporting aps 36 at each end of the divergent score lines extend outward beyondthe hanger arms 24 and 26, and the hanger strut 38, toprovide a rounded aring type of support to the shoulders and upper sleeve sections of a coat. `As appears in Figs. 2 and 3, the spaced score lines 18--22 terminate short of the lower outer corners of the blank and the lower outer corner portions form shoulder-supporting end flaps 36 into which such score lines do not extend. Such end aps 36 are defined at their inner edges by transverse score lines 40 and 41 which separate the aps from the scored portions and at which the score lines 18 and 22 terminate. It will be noted that the score line 40 extends between the score lines 22 perpendicular to the center line 18, and that the outer end portions 41 of the transverse scoring extend obliquely inward and lie at an acute angle both to the center line 18 and to the score lines 22. As shown in Fig. 4, strap-supporting stops are formed by folding the flaps 36 upwardly along the score lines 40, perpendicular to the score lines 18, and along the score lines 41 which form acute angles with the score lines 18. The fold along lines 41 forces the lateral ends of the aps back toward the center of the cover forming a snap-like locking means to secure the flaps in a vertical position. In this folded vertical position the straps of a strap-support ed garment may be hooked over said upwardly extending flaps to support said garment from the hanger cover.

As shown in Fig. 5, the cover for womens garments is smaller than that above described and does not. extend laterally outwardly beyond the ends of the divergent hanger arms 24 and 26, the shoulder-supporting flaps thereby terminating at a point generally commensurate with the width of the generally smaller sized womens; garments. Further, on the womens garment cover the shoulder aps may have a smaller area to provide theproper amount of Haring necessary for rounded shoulder support of womens garments, but large enough to formstops for supporting strap-supported garments.

I claim as my invention:

1. A cover for a coat hanger having a pair of diverging arms and a hook supporting such arms, comprising a generally triangular sheet of foldable'material provided with a notch at its apex and two sets of divergent score lines extending.obliquelyrdownward from said 'notch and separating the sheet into a rear wall and two aps adapted to be folded about said score lines to forma front wall, one of said liaps having a slot and the other a tongue adapted to be received in such slot for locking said cover over the hanger, said sheet being provided near its lower corners with supplemental score lines transverse to the divergent score lines and defining end flaps adapted t0 be folded upwardly about said supplemental score lines te provide hook-like stops for the straps of `garments which are supported by means of straps, the opposite end portions of said transverse score lines diverging inward at acute angles to the shoulder center line, whereby when said aps are folded upward, pressure such as would be exerted by garment straps downward on the edges of the sheet adjacent to said liiaps will tend to bend said aps further inward.

2. A cover for a coat hanger having a pair of diverging arms and a hook supporting such arms, comprising a generally triangular sheet of foldable material provided With a notch at its apex and'two sets of divergent score lines extending obliquely downward from said notch and separating the sheet into a rear wall and two flaps adapted to be folded about said score lines to form a front wall, means for holding said tiaps in folded position over the hanger, said sheet being provided near its lower corners with supplemental score lines transverse to the divergent score lines and defining end iapsadapted to be folded upwardly about said supplemental score lines to provide hook-lil e stops for the straps of garments which are supported by means of straps, the opposite end portions of said transverse score lines diverging inward at acute angles to the shoulder center line, whereby when said flaps are folded upward, pressure such as would be exerted by garment straps downward on the edges of the sheet adjacent to said flaps will tend to bend said aps further inward.

3. A coat hanger cover as set forth in claim 2 with the addition that said divergent score lines terminate at said supplemental score lines.

4. A coat hanger cover as set forth in claim 2 with the addition that said supplemental score lines include, at each lower corner of the cover, an intermediate score ast/3,054

line extending between the two outermost of the divergent score lines and terminal score lines diverging toward said notch from the ends of said intermediate score line.

5. A cover for a coat hanger having a pair of diverging arms and a central supporting hook, comprising shoulder-supports formed of cardboard or like material having a plurality of spaced score lines running longitudinally of each support and being folded over the hanger arms with the folding distributed between the score lines to provide a downwardly open channel shaped configuration with a rounded top wall overlying each hanger arm, transverse score lines adjacent the ends of saidsupports to define end aps which may be turned upward about said transverse score lines to form end'stops, the transverse score lines having inwardly diverging end portions which cause said up-turned aps to take an inwardly open channel configuration, whereby downward pressure such as would be exerted by garment straps on thefshoulder supports tending to bend downward the edges of the downwardlyeopen channel configuration will thereby urge said up-.turned flaps inward to upstanding position.

6. Cover means for a coat hanger having a pair of downward diverging arms and a central supporting hook, comprising cover members of foldable material adapted to be secured over said hanger and to extend downward along said hanger arms, the outer ends thereof having downwardly bent front and rear marginal portions, means forminga transverse fold line across each said outer end and dening an end iiap, said fold `line having inward diverging end portions at acute angles to the centerline of the cover member, said end flap being adapted to be turned upward by distorting the transverse fold line portion of the cover member from its downwardly' bent shape to a llat condition, and thereafter to be locked in upstanding position in inwardly-open channel configuration by return of said cover portion from ilat condition to its downwardly bent configuration.

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